[OSGeo-Discuss] Libre Graphics Meeting - Montreal, May 4-6

[P Kishor]

On 4/6/07, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) <tmitchell at osgeo.org> wrote:
> I was talking to some folks involved with the Libre Graphics Meeting
> (below) and I think it'd be interesting to try to find some synergies
> between our geospatial visualisation needs and their applications:
> Blender, GIMP, Inkscape, Krita, Scribus.  We all know map production
> is near and dear to our hearts and similar concepts are to theirs
> too.  It'd be great if someone could go and do a presentation about
> our perspective on graphics with geo on the brain.

A long time ago, another life, another place, I used a product called
Mapublisher made by a Canadian company called Avenza. A plugin for
Adobe Illustrator, t allowed me to import shapefiles into Illustrator
and create nice looking posters/graphics, basically bypass the
limitations of Arcview or of cutting and pasting bitmaps. Slick idea,
it was.

I believe Deneba's Canvas (or whatever the company is called now) does
that as well. Having the ability to import shapefiles into Inkscape (a
really fun product) would be very nice.

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Puneet Kishor http://punkish.eidesis.org/
Nelson Inst. for Env. Studies, UW-Madison http://www.nelson.wisc.edu/
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